Burton G. Malkiel's classic and gimmick-free investment guide is now more necessary than ever. Rather than tricks, what you'll find here is a time-tested and thoroughly research-based strategy for your portfolio. Whether you're considering your first 401(k) contribution or contemplating retirement, this fully updated edition of A Random Walk Down Wall Street should be the first book on your wishlist.

Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism

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Stocks for the Long Run

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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

This audiobook is about luck, or more precisely, how we perceive and deal with luck in life and business. It is already a landmark work, and its title has entered our vocabulary. In its second edition, Fooled by Randomness is now a cornerstone for anyone interested in random outcomes.

The Little Book That Still Beats the Market

Now, with a new Introduction and Afterword for 2010, The Little Book that Still Beats the Market updates and expands upon the research findings from the original book. Included are data and analysis covering the recent financial crisis and model performance through the end of 2009. In a straightforward and accessible style, the book explores the basic principles of successful stock market investing and then reveals the author’s time-tested formula....

The Intelligent Investor Rev Ed.

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Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception

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The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for The Thoughtful Investor

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A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market

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The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom and Enlightenment

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Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

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Where Are the Customers' Yachts?: or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street

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Invest Like a Guru: How to Generate Higher Returns at Reduced Risk with Value Investing

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When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management

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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

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Finance and the Good Society

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The Four Pillars of Investing: Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio

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The Little Book of Behavioral Investing: How Not to Be Your Own Worst Enemy

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Publisher's Summary

In this bold and potentially urgent volume, Robert J. Shiller, a respected expert on market volatility, offers an unconventional interpretation of recent U.S. stock market highs and shows that Alan Greenspan's term "irrational exuberance" is a good description of the mood behind the market. He warns that poorer performance may be in the offing and tells us how we - as a society and individually - can respond.

Shiller credits an unprecedented confluence of events with driving stocks to uncharted heights. He analyzes the structural and psychological factors that explain why the Dow Jones Industrial Average tripled between 1994 and 1999, a level of growth not reflected in any other sector of the economy. In contrast to many analysts, Shiller stresses circumstances that alter investors' perceptions of the market. These include the entry of the Internet into American homes, the misimpression that the aging of the baby-boom generation builds long-term protection into the market, and herd behavior, such as day-trading. He also examines cultural factors, including sports-style media coverage of the Dow's ups and downs and "new era" thinking about the economy. He considers - and challenges - efforts to rationalize exuberance that are based on either efficient-markets theory, narrowly construed, or the claim that investors have only recently learned the true value of the market.

Irrational Exuberance is a must-listen for individual investors as well as investment professionals, pension-plan sponsors, and endowment managers everywhere. It will be studied by policy makers and anyone from Wall Street to Main Street who doesn't want to be caught sitting on the speculative bubble if (or when) it bursts.

This is an academic overiew of behavioral finance. Not as thorough as a textbook, but it has the same flavor. With the acadmic perspective without the thoroughnes of an academic text, it reads like a litnay of hypothesis about the 'irrationality' of the stock market interspersed with anecdotal statistics and historical examples.

The book has a very one-sided view of the central controversy in the economics of Finance, which is the rationlity of the financial markets. His strong endorsement of behavorial finance and emphatic rejection of Efficient Market Theory detract from the power of some of the hypothesis he puts forward.

Because it is abridged, I cannot say if the book lost much in the abridgement. Being read by the author (a Yale economics professor), I would hope that this version keeps the essence of the unabridged text.

If you can survive what seems, at times, an interminable academic lecture, this book does offer lots of facts and insights useful to understanding how the financial markets funtion.

I listened to the book twice, only to digest the material once again.
It was very captivating to see how complex things are and how people
try to explain in very simplistic terms. I wish I had listened to
this book even earlier as it is a necessary book (in my opinion) to
one's own understanding of investing and its rewards.

I loved this book a lot despite some significant defects that may bother others. Remember that this book is abridged; as such I am not aware which subjects received more relevant coverage in the unabridged edition.

Shiller's performance is adequate. He sounds exactly like you'd expect a financial academic to sound like but his narration isn't without some merit. He doesn't marshall the pacing and drama that a professional narration might and his nasal, nerd voice might turn off some.

The book is excellent despite it's academic density. However, there were still plenty of times where I had to rewind in order to unpack certain concepts.

His application of cognitive psychology waaaaaaay back in 2000 put him in the forefront of a still neglected economic field.

In this book he explodes the common myths about stock markets such as: they are always optimally and rationally priced; experts always know what they are doing; people can predict the future moves of the market and many others.

A valuable and still relevant text that helps illuminate the nature of speculative bubbles.

I am not sure. Sound quality is not good. Static noise in a few places.

How could the performance have been better?

Do a better quality control.

Any additional comments?

I never had audio book before. I just completed the first round of the book. It's a great book and excellent narration. But, the sound quality is not good. A few areas have static sounds and couldn't be heard clearly. I had to go to the book to read those parts again. I re-downloaded it and had same problem. I had to give low rating on performance because of technical issue, not narrator.Audio book is all about memory of the sound. I was so concentrated on listening. The static noise was too much for me. Every time when I listen close to those areas, I start prepare myself to the noise. It defeats the purpose.To be honest, my first experience with audio book is not good. Hope my comment can help you guys understand from user side and improve your quality.

Unable to listen to the audio since itunes is locked down for Windows and Mac, and you can't burn it to a CD so I can listen to it in the car. Seriously how am I supposed to listen to this? On my ANDROID smartphone? The only way I can listen to this is borrow a friends computer and see if I can install some badware on their computer so I can listen to it. <br/><br/>And the audio quality is bad, DRM bomb dropped, waste of $20. Don't make my mistake.

If you’ve listened to books by Robert J. Shiller before, how does this one compare?

I've listened to robert shiller a lot he's a genius, but he erred when using itunes.

I clicked this into my library without realising a) that it was abridged and b) that it is the 2000 edition not the 2005 revised edition. In other words, in my appreciation this purchase is a complete mistake. Why would the 2000 edition even still be in stock, once the post-2001 crash version is available? I'm going to try and send this book back.

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